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Mart Crowley

MART CROWLEY  (1935 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  


Mart Crowley was born on august 21st 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His childhood was not a happy one - both parents were alcoholics and his mother spent time in a mental institution. after graduating he went to Hollywood and worked for a number of production companies. He met Natalie Wood as she hired him as her personal assistant - which gave him time to write "The Boys In The Band". The plays that followed were not the success "Boys" was and he was financially down in his luck. Natalie Wood suggested that he came to work on her husband's new television series. So in 1979 he became executive script editor for "Hart to Hart" and later executive producer.

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 Avec Schmaltz         Boys In The Band, The         Breeze From The Gulf, A         For Reasons That Remain Unclear         Men From The Boys, The         Remote Asylum         Tale At Both Ends, A

Avec Schmaltz

Mart Crowley
a divorced couple who cannot live with each other - or live without each other

Notes:
part of the New Play Series

1st Produced:
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Ma    11 Aug 1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Boys In The Band, The

Mart Crowley
Michael, a homosexual, has invited a number of friends to his birthday party. a 'straight' friend of his, alan, rings up and wants to see him. Though anxious about the outcome, Michael agrees to his joining them. alan's presence acts as a catalyst to the emotions - never far from the surface - of those at the party. The result is a mixture of bitter humour and physical violence. Alan goes, leaving behind him the debris of the party.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playwright's Unit, Vandam Theatre, NYC    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Farrar, StrAus & Giroux, N.Y., 1968   B000PZMM2Y

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Breeze From The Gulf, A

Mart Crowley
15 year old boy in Mississippi town suffers through adolescence through to adulthood and success as a writer. Your Mother is a junky, your Father is alcoholic & you are growing up gay. "I went to the funeral parlour today to see Dr Valkenberg & his Mexican Matador. What a scandal that's been."

Notes:
also At Eastside Playhouse, NYC

1st Produced:
Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pa    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Farrar StrAus, New York, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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For Reasons That Remain Unclear

Synopsis:
a chance meeting brings Patrick face to face with the priest who abused him when he was nine

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Olney Theatre,Olney, MD    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Men From The Boys, The

Synopsis:
Follow up to Boys in the Band. The friends meet for the wake of Larry. "Jason's so common, I bet he smokes in the shower."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Remote Asylum

Mart Crowley
In the heat of a blazing summer, three physically and spiritually exhausted Americans: Tom, a famous tennis pro; Dinah, his beautiful, cosmopolitan, not-yet divorced lover; and their mutual pal, Michael, a gay writer (first introduced in The Boys in the Band), try to "get away from it all" by visiting Dinahs enormously wealthy retired friends - the older, imperious Irene and her terminally ill husband, Ray - at their fabulous cliff-side villa on an island in the Mediterranean. But it turns out to be far from the perfect, restorative holiday they were so desperately seeking. This odyssey has not brought them or their hosts anywhere near the paradise they were seeking, but rather to an inferno where a painful, purgatorial breakthrough occurs, releasing them all and providing true escape from this distant and deceptively idyllic haven. Remote asylum is a play which observes the classical unities of time, place and action, which remorselessly exposes a group of bruised souls - wanderers all, and forces them to deal with their fears of loneliness and mortality, to open past emotional wounds not yet healed. The event is one of forceful, dynamic transfiguration; the conversation is intelligent and adult, both witty and grave, best described as a kind of orchestrated tone poem.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, california    Dec 1970

Organisations:
Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, Ca

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tale At Both Ends, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 13/4

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